LEADER 04032nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910823730703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-85540-9 010 $a9786612855405 010 $a0-7735-6755-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773567559 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713572 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280358 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210819 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280358 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10290720 035 $a(PQKB)11760279 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331147 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141819 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285540 035 $a(OCoLC)929121444 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/482340 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400523 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331147 035 $a(DE-B1597)655099 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773567559 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245484 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713572 100 $a19980908d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHonest sins $eGeorgian libertinism and the plays and novels of Henry Fielding /$fTiffany Potter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d1999 215 $ax, 203 p. ;$d24 cm 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-1803-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tToward a Re-vision of Georgian Libertinism -- $tEarly Georgian Libertines -- $tGeorgian Libertinism and the Reclamation of Virtue -- $tThreads in the Carpet -- $tThe Road to Archetypal Georgian Libertinism -- $tThe Mature Faces of Libertinism -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aPotter is the first author to make clear how English libertinism changed during the eighteenth century as the violent, hypersexualized Hobbesian libertine, typified by the Earl of Rochester, was tempered by England's cultures of sentiment and sensibility. The good-natured Georgian libertinism that emerged maintained the subversive social, religious, sexual, and philosophical tenets of the old libertinism, but misogynist brutality was replaced by freedom and autonomy for the individual, whether male or female. Libertinism encompasses issues of gender, sexuality, and literary and cultural history and thus provides a useful cultural context for a discussion of a number of critical approaches to Fielding's work, including feminism, queer theory, new historicism, and cultural studies. The traditional view of Fielding as a warm-blooded but essentially prudent moralist is reconsidered here in light of the symbiotic relationship Potter argues existed between Fielding and this mediated libertinism. Fielding developed the discourse in his own terms, beginning with his licentious early plays and continuing with Shamela and Joseph Andrews, in which Fielding first subverts, then reforms, popular social constructs of virtue. Fielding later develops his archetypal Georgian libertine in Tom Jones, and continues his consideration with Amelia, whose virtuous heroine embodies Fielding's balance of masculinity and femininity, his controversial understanding of virtue, and the individualism, privilege, and passion of the libertine discourse in which he so prominently positioned himself. 606 $aLibertinism in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLibertinism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.5 700 $aPotter$b Tiffany$f1967-$0865596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823730703321 996 $aHonest sins$93920000 997 $aUNINA